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The two ways

¹How blessed is the one who does not walk by the advice of the wicked, \q or stand on the path that sinners tread, \q or sit where mockers gather! ²Instead, the instruction of the LORD is their delight, \q and they recite it quietly to themselves day and night.^{a 3}That person is like a tree set out beside channels of water, \q which bears its fruit when its season comes, \q and whose leaves never dry up. \q Whatever they do turns out well. ⁴The wicked are nothing like that. \q They are like chaff, scattered by the wind. ⁵That is why the wicked will not stand firm when judgment comes, \q and sinners will have no place in the gathering of the righteous. ⁶For the LORD knows the path of the righteous and cares for it, \q but the path of the wicked ends in ruin.